Which colleges have the "gunners" in their pre-med classes?

kristin5792
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:14:04 +0000

Most of my science classes are graded on a pretty standard curve–find the average score, assign that a grade of C, determine the “cutoffs” of percent correct or total points for B and A (and D and F), post scores/percents and cutoffs. The +/- are used in the grey areas.

Big state school. Science classes range from 30 kids to 100, with some popular required classes (like intro bio) in the 300ish range, and intro chem topping the charts at 500ish.

Who knows if this is typical or not, but I’ve seen that my humanities classes and non-science classes tend NOT to use curves and instead assign grades as percent of points (ie, 95+=A, 90+=B, etc).